Finance Committee - 02/05/2020 Page 13
The energy recovery building takes methane from the digester egg and through the generator produces energy
that gets fed back, and we make money on that. We just need to upgrade that.
Alderman Klee
| don’t know if you can answer this but we sell it to a third party correct? We are not using it within the City?
Mr. Caggiano
So some of the energy and again, I’m limited here, | know that they do use the energy at the plant and any
excess gets sent back to the grid.
Alderwoman Kelly
You may not know the answer to this but | wonder if this is the unit by the dam that we got back on line earlier
this year?
Mayor Donchess
No this is at the waste water treatment plant.
MOTION CARRIED
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Landfill Gas Expansion — Changer Order 1 (Value: $135,140) Department: 168 Solid Waste; Fund:
Bond
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND AUTHORIZE
CHANGE ORDER #1 FOR LANDFILL GAS EXPANSION IN THE AMOUNT OF $135,140 TO SCS FIELD
SERVICES. FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN DEPARTMENT 168 SOLID WASTE; FUND: BOND
ON THE QUESTION
Mr. Caggiano
Again, Nick Caggiano, Parks & Rec Department Superintendent. Speaking for Superintendent LeFluer as part
of the landfill gas expansion system, they need to do a change order of $135,140.00 to repair and replace
some of the horizontal and vertical gas wells. These wells are at the landfill, they vacuum of the methane that
is produce from the trash and it is sent to an energy recovery spot, a flare or the generator that is managed by
a third party.
Alderwoman Lu
| just wondered if you could tell me about the phrase “pending bond approval’? Is this a large project that has
been bonded and this is just something more that needs to be done or added to it.
Mr. Caggiano
| am going to pass the baton to the Mayor. | believe it’s a bond.
Mayor Donchess
Yes. So the landfill, we are required by DES, the Department of Environmental Services, to collect gas out of
the landfill. It is burned and generates electricity, that part of it is done by the third party provider. So these
expansion projects and a lot of the work at the landfill and there is a lot going on because they are constructing
